Button



(No Model.)

BUTTON. No. 256,775. Patented Apr. 18, 1882'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE K. WEBSTER, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,775, dated April18, 1882.

Application filed February 21,1882. (No model.) Q

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE K. WEBs'rER, of Attleborough, in the countyof Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull,- clear, and exact description of the same.

Myinvention relates tobuttons(forcollarsand ends) and studs of the classin which the essential feature is a hinged or pivoted shoe, adapted toturn to a position parallel to or in line with the post or shank toenable the shoe to be passed edgewise through the button-hole. 1nforming these buttons it is usually customary to attach to theface-plate or head of the button a shank or post having integral pivotsor a Tshaped lower end adapted to work in bearings formed by depressionsin aplate attached rigidly to the shoe of the button, such depressionsextending at right angles to the central slot in the plate.

My invention consists in combining with the head or face-plate of abutton a rigidly-attached post, having bearing-sockets near its lowerend on opposite sides, and ashoe composed of a bottom plate. a spring,and a top plate, having integralh -formed pivots or journals adapted tothe bearingsin the pos whereby the shoe may be turned in eitherdirection to a position parallel with the post.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a section showing the face-plate in sideelevation. E g. 2 is a separate view of the post. Fig. 3 is a top viewof the top plate of the shoe.

The face-plate A may be made of any suitable material-such as gold,silver, or base metal-and may be used as a setting for any kind of stoneor ornamental design.

Rigidly attached to it, by soldering or otherwise, is the post B, formedof a single piece of metal, and preferably of rectangular crosssection.Near the lower end of the post, on the opposite edges or sides thereof,are bearing-sockets 11, )laced exactly opposite each other, and ofsufficient depth to receive and retain the pivots, hereinafterdescribed.

0 represents the shoe. It is composed of a slotted top plate, 2, abottom or cap plate, 3, and an intermediate spring, 4. The plate 2 has aslot extending across it of suftlcient width to admit the fiat spring 4.The plate 2 is stamped or cut out with integral pivots 5 5 on oppositeedges of the slot, which enter the sockets in the post.

The completed shoe is formed by crimping the edge of the cap-plate downover the edge of the top plate and spring, the parts thereby It will beobserved that in constructing the several parts of my button, a savingof material is efiected over the ordinary method offorming thepivots onthe post. Thepostbeingcomposed otcoin parativel y thick material ,thewaste necessary in stamping the projecting pivots forms an appreciablearticle of loss. When the post is plain and the pivots are formed on theshoe, however, no extra waste is caused, since the posts have noprojections, and such pivots on the plate are composed of metal thatwould by the old method be removed. There is, hence, a considerablesaving of material in stamping the posts, and a. less but stillappreciable saving I11 forming the plate.

1 am awaie that a shank or post of a button has been provided Wllll aslot adapted to engage with a tongue formed in th face-plate of the shoewhereby the shoe ma-\ be turned at right angles to its normal position;and I am aware that raised hearings have been formed in the lace-plate,and that a post having an enlarged head and transverse perforations hasbeen jonrnaled in said bearings by independent pins passing throughlie-rings in the post, and I do not claim either of the devicesmentioned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 18- 1. A buttoncomposed of a head, a post having oppositely-placed sockets, and a shoe,the inner plate of whicL is slotted and provided Wll h op'lositely-placed integral pivots adapted to the said sockets, for thepurpose set forth.

2. The described button, consisting ofafaceplate, a post having sockets1 1, and a shoe composed of a cap-plate and a top plate, 2, havingintegral pivots projecting from opposite sides of a slot therein adaptedto thesockets in the post, and a spring, 4, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: G. K. WEBSTER.

J. E. POND, Jr., H. F. BARRoUL.

